The European Commission has dismissed Germany’s latest plans to revamp its online gambling market as “not a viable solution.”

This week, German media reported that their country’s Prime Minister had received a letter from Brussels pouring cold water on the new State Treaty on Gambling agreed upon by the 16 German landër last October.

That treaty sought to lift the previous treaty’s controversial cap on the number of available sports betting licenses, which had generated successful court challenges from operators who failed to win one of the original 20 licenses, thereby preventing the government from formally issuing any betting licenses.

The new treaty called for all of the original 35 license applicants who’d proceeded to the second stage of the application process to immediately receive temporary betting permits, while other applicants would have to apply for full licenses that wouldn’t become active until 2018. This week’s letter from the EC deemed this solution anti-competitive.